Madness and Religious Experience with Richard Saville-Smith
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The Extraordinary and Normalist Extreme Experiences
The category of extraordinary anomalous oblique experiences doesn't really trickle off the tongue in any kind of slick or poetic manner. But what it does is it gives me something that I can look for within the literature of the 20th century to find theorists who were in that zone. And so James, Otto, Osterich, Eliade, Woltersstace, Walter, Panky. These are all people who are talking about extraordinary anomalous extreme experiences. So they're all in the same game, even though they come from completely different backgrounds.
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